Re: Win32 timezone matching

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
>>>>
>>>> hmm all that code makes me wonder a bit about a more general issue - is
>>>> the "fallback to GMT if we fail to actually make sense of the right imezone
>>>> to use" actually a good idea?
>>>
>>> What alternative are you proposing?  Failing to start the server doesn't
>>> seem like an attractive choice.
>>
>> why not? we do error out in a lot of other cases as well... Personally I
>> find a hard and clear "something is wrong please fix" much more convinient
>> than defaulting to something that is more or less completely arbitrary but
>> well...
>
> While I can understand why someone might want that behavior in some
> cases, in other cases it might be a severe overreaction.

I think the dangerous scenario is if it worked, and then stopped
working. In that case, the database will change it's behavior and it
might go unnoticed. If it's wrong on first install, it'll likely get
noticed..

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